HOT TOPICS:
RIGHT TO DIE
Scope|Overview
Sources|Subject
Headings|Circulating
Books| Periodicals, Journal & Trade
Publications|Web Sites
SCOPE: Euthanasia is a term, which has been interpreted as either mercy killing or assisted suicide. It implies a “good death” whereby medical intervention is used when a patient is suffering from intolerable pain and from a terminal illness. (Palmisano, World of Sociology) Supporters firmly believe that this the most humane form of treatment a patient can receive under such dire circumstances. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with the right to die are listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following subject headings:
Right to die—Social aspects—United States
Right to die—Law and legislation—United States
Euthanasia—United States
Assisted suicide—Law and legislation—United States
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
R726.R531996 Euthanasia: A Reference Handbook
HM 17.E5 1991 Encyclopedia of Sociology
HM 585.W67 2001 World of Sociology
CQ Researcher
(online database):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
Some representative books from the Circulating collection located on the second floor of the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Dworkin, R.M. Life’s
Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and
Individual Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Hoefler, James M. Deathright:
Culture, Medicine, Politics, and the Right to Die. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.
Palmer, Larry I. Endings and
Beginnings: Law, Medicine, and Society in Assisted Life and
Death. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2000.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of the right to die are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB SITES
Euthanasia and the Right to Die, Trinity University
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/dtheuth.html
Ethics Update: Euthanasia and End-of-Life Decisions
http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Euthanasia/
Updated
02/08/2007
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